Journal article
Care recipients’ physical frailty is independently associated with subjective burden in informal caregivers in the community setting: a cross-sectional study
Abstract
BackgroundPhysical frailty is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. Burden in informal caregivers of older adults causes significant physical and psychological distress. However, the relationship between these two clinical phenomena has not been extensively studied. This cross-sectional study evaluated the relationship between physical frailty of community-dwelling older adults attending an …
Authors
Ringer TJ; Hazzan AA; Kennedy CC; Karampatos S; Patterson C; Marr S; Misiaszek B; Woo T; Ioannidis G; Papaioannou A
Journal
BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 16, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2016
DOI
10.1186/s12877-016-0355-6
ISSN
1471-2318